Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Aplolgia Pro Vita Sua - Poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The poet in his lone yet genial hourGives to his eyes a magnifying power :Or rather he emancipates his eyesFrom the black shapeless accidents of size--In unctuous cones of kindling coal,Or smoke upwreathing from the pipe's trim bole, His gifted ken can see Phantoms of sublimity.